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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 and 1 other boosted
petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Please help catalog federal datasets that have been taken down or censored since Trump took office for his second term.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzVsyd1ypzu0E0tomqaAqhNrJLIB-dEALA6BpWrpfxh_Jfwg/viewform

Thanks to #EssentialData.US, the Federation of American Scientists ( #FAS), and Public Environmental Data Partners ( #PEDP) for launching this project.

For some reason, the deadline is tomorrow, Oct 29.

#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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Memorialize the federal datasets that have been terminated or removed

This Halloween season, we're remembering the federal datasets that have met an untimely end — the ones that were terminated or removed since January 20, 2025. Help us memorialize these Dearly Departed Datasets so we can all understand what was lost and why they matter. 🌕 Hosted by: EssentialData.US, Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP), and The Impact Project 🐈‍⬛ Deadline: Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at 11:59 pm ET 🕯️ Submission Note: One submission per dataset, please. In scope: ✅ Datasets that have been removed from public access ✅ Datasets that remain available but further data collections have been terminated ✅ Data elements that were removed from a dataset that still exists ✅ Specialized data tools that provide easy access to the data Not in scope: ❌ Datasets whose status is ambiguous (eg, no staff exist to collect the data, but no official announcement has been made about its termination) ❌ Reports, papers, or analyses that use data, but are not the data sources themselves ❌ Federal websites about a dataset that were pulled down Examples: 🪦 USDA Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) — terminated 🪦 EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) — terminated 🪦 NOAA Billion-Dollar Disasters Database — terminated 🕸️ FEMA Future Risk Index — taken down 🕸️ DHS Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open — taken down 🕸️ CEQ Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) — taken down 🕸️ EPA Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen) — taken down 👻 OPM FedScope — race and ethnicity data removed 👻 BJS National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) — gender data removed 👻 BOP Inmate Statistics — transgender data removed
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petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Please help catalog federal datasets that have been taken down or censored since Trump took office for his second term.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzVsyd1ypzu0E0tomqaAqhNrJLIB-dEALA6BpWrpfxh_Jfwg/viewform

Thanks to #EssentialData.US, the Federation of American Scientists ( #FAS), and Public Environmental Data Partners ( #PEDP) for launching this project.

For some reason, the deadline is tomorrow, Oct 29.

#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Google Docs

Memorialize the federal datasets that have been terminated or removed

This Halloween season, we're remembering the federal datasets that have met an untimely end — the ones that were terminated or removed since January 20, 2025. Help us memorialize these Dearly Departed Datasets so we can all understand what was lost and why they matter. 🌕 Hosted by: EssentialData.US, Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP), and The Impact Project 🐈‍⬛ Deadline: Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at 11:59 pm ET 🕯️ Submission Note: One submission per dataset, please. In scope: ✅ Datasets that have been removed from public access ✅ Datasets that remain available but further data collections have been terminated ✅ Data elements that were removed from a dataset that still exists ✅ Specialized data tools that provide easy access to the data Not in scope: ❌ Datasets whose status is ambiguous (eg, no staff exist to collect the data, but no official announcement has been made about its termination) ❌ Reports, papers, or analyses that use data, but are not the data sources themselves ❌ Federal websites about a dataset that were pulled down Examples: 🪦 USDA Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) — terminated 🪦 EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) — terminated 🪦 NOAA Billion-Dollar Disasters Database — terminated 🕸️ FEMA Future Risk Index — taken down 🕸️ DHS Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open — taken down 🕸️ CEQ Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) — taken down 🕸️ EPA Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen) — taken down 👻 OPM FedScope — race and ethnicity data removed 👻 BJS National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) — gender data removed 👻 BOP Inmate Statistics — transgender data removed
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petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 9 months ago

Update. "As the US government removes health websites and data, here’s a list of non-government data alternatives and archives"
https://journalistsresource.org/home/as-the-us-government-removes-health-websites-and-data-heres-a-list-of-non-government-data-alternatives/

"There’s no perfect alternative to the government databases, but some non-governmental organizations have their own datasets, which can be useful to journalists. Several #journalism associations have also been downloading government data and making them available to their members. To help journalists with their continued reporting, we have curated a list of non-government websites that have health data, although some use government data to create their reports. We’ll continue to update this list. If you have a suggestion for a database, please email us."

h/t @kdnyhan

#Censorship#DefendResearch#Medicine#OpenData#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump#USPol#USPolitics

petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 months ago

Update. "Here’s why and how Public Environmental Data Partners [#PEDP] and others are making sure that the #climate science the public depends on is available forever."
https://theconversation.com/how-to-find-climate-data-and-science-the-trump-administration-doesnt-want-you-to-see-249321

#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenData#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump#USPol#USPolitics

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petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 9 months ago

Update. "Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites"
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1111328/inside-the-race-to-archive-the-us-governments-websites/

Surveying a range of initiatives with good clarity on the obstacles.

"There are questions about whether scraping the data will really be enough. Restoring websites and complex data sets is often not a simple process.…'The repairs and attempts to recover are sometimes insurmountable where we need continuous readings of data.' 'All of this data archiving work is a temporary Band-Aid,' says Gosnell. 'If data sets are removed and are no longer updated, our archived data will become increasingly stale and thus ineffective at informing decisions over time.' "

#Climate#Data#Medicine#OpenData#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump#USPol#USPolitics

petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 months ago

Update. "The Public Environmental Data Partners [#PEDP] are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. We are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. To gather insights on what data to preserve, we reached out to our networks, which consist largely of environmental justice groups and networks, state and local government climate offices, and academic researchers. We compiled a large list of federal databases and tools, and prioritized them based on their relative impact, our confidence that we could archive them, and the relative effort it would take to obtain and archive them."
https://screening-tools.com/

Continuously updated.

#Climate#Data#Environment#OpenData#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump#USPol#USPolitics

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